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    Committed Akron Leaders Collaborate, Leveraging Akron’s Assets

    Article from the Knight Foundation 2006 Annual Report “It wasn’t a place that people took pride in,” says University of Akron President Luis Proenza. He’s talking about University Park, a downtown Akron neighborhood of 11,500 residents, home to blocks of blighted housing for some of the school’s 24,000 students.  But like other urban centers in […]

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    Milestones of 2006

    An Article from Knight Foundation’s 2006 Annual Report January The Immigration Funders Network, a group of national funders interested in the impact of immigration on children and families, gathers in Miami. Above, Ismael Ahmed, executive director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), a Knight grantee in Dearborn, Mich., speaks at […]

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    Letter from the Chairman and the President

    In the early 1970s, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is said to have asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai for his assessment of the French Revolution. “Too soon to tell” was Zhou’s reported response. Perhaps it’s also too soon to tell the impact of changes that were taking place at the beginning of the 20th century […]

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    Essay: The Role of Leadership in Transformation

    An article from Knight Foundation’s 2006 Annual Report By David Gergen It’s impossible to imagine the creation of India without Mohandas Gandhi’s leadership. Or the emergence of biracial harmony in a free South Africa without Nelson Mandela. Or the rallying of the British people to turn back the Nazi threat without Winston Churchill. Coming closer […]

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    When Leaders Gather, the Subject is Social Change

    It’s a simple idea. Rather than rely on one leader, as essayist David Gergen warns against, fill a room with smart, committed, entrepreneurial leaders bent on social change and see what happens. “The whole is greater than the parts,” says Vanessa Kirsch, president and founder of New Profit Inc., a hub for social entrepreneurs. “We […]

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    Two Campuses Educate the 21st Century’s Leaders and Readers

    Article from the 2006 Knight Foundation Annual Report The digital revolution is not for the faint of heart. At Columbia University’s prestigious Graduate School of Journalism, Dean Nicholas Lemann bridges the practice and teaching of journalism, on campus and in the field. The New Yorker writer is leading a high-profile effort to develop a series […]

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    2006 Grants Overview

    Listed below are new grants totaling $73,799,294 approved during 2006 by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Some of these grants, as well as those approved in past years, are disbursed over a period of several years. The net effect of these past and future commitments is that during 2006, the foundation actually […]

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    Damian Thorman Joins Knight Foundation As National Program Officer

    MIAMI — Damian Thorman, an entrepreneurial professional in law, grant making and public policy, has joined the staff of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as national program officer. Thorman will work with Vice President of National and New Initiatives, Paula Ellis, in the foundation’s efforts to support innovative leadership, organizations and ideas […]

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